Nursing staff protest against junior doctors at GMC Jammu

Jammu, May 28: Nursing staff at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu are up in arms against the junior doctors for allegedly assaulting a nursing Incharge of the Orthopaedics ward.
They held a protest demonstration against doctors inside the GMC premises Tuesday and demanded action against the culprit doctor.
Eye witnesses said that a nursing Incharge of Orthopaedics ward was pushed by a Post Graduate student of GMC Jammu, Dr. Sajjad, which irked the nursing staff, who later held a protest demonstration against the maltreatment they have been allegedly receiving from doctors.
“The nursing Incharge was asking the junior doctor to make a note in the file of the patient so that the medication could be started. The doctor refused and instead abused the nurse and pushed her away. The doctor termed her inferior and told to behave like that,” a protesting nurse told media persons outside the emergency wing of GMC Jammu.
They alleged that this has become a routine affair of junior doctors, who don’t care about the nursing staff. “We perform our duties 24×7 throughout the month without taking any leave but in return, we are being abused by junior doctors. It is the duty of the doctor to make a note about medication of the patient on the file and we on our own can’t give the patient medication. The doctors don’t want to take the blame on them if anything happens to the patient,” said another protesting male nurse.
Meanwhile, GMC authorities said that things have been put into the order. “There were some issues between the doctors and the nursing staff, which have been sorted out and things are back to normal,” Dr. Ashutosh Gupta, GMC Jammu Principal said.